Originally Posted by
Burney
There's enough starry-eyed old lefties out there who willingly forget that it used to take a month to get a phone line put in, that you could by law only buy telephones from one source, that British Rail was absolutely fûcking abysmal, that British Leyland basically destroyed the car industry in this country for a generation, etc, etc.
People tend to believe what they want to believe rather than harsh realities.
Thankfully, nobody ever votes for a party on the basis of whether they want to nationalise shït or not.